Biology
A Guide to the Natural World
3rd Edition
Published on 7. April 2004
Book
Hardback
848 pages
978-0-13-141450-1 (ISBN)
Description
For courses in Introductory Biology for non-majors. Every aspect of Biology: A Guide to the Natural World was written and illustrated to guide non-majors through biological concepts and develop their sense of scientific literacy. It has come to be known as a book students enjoy reading. The Third Edition builds upon Krogh's popular strengths-an accessible and engaging writing style, an original illustration program, and a complete instructor and student resource package.
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
2100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-141450-1 (9780131414501)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Content
1. Science as a Way of Learning: A Guide to the Natural World
UNIT 1. ESSENTIAL PARTS: ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND CELLS
2. The Fundamental Building Blocks: Chemistry and Life
3. Water, pH, and Biological Molecules
4. Life's Home: The Cell
5. Life's Border: The Plasma Membrane
UNIT 2. ENERGY AND ITS TRANSFORMATION
6. Life's Mainspring: An Introduction to Energy
7. Vital Harvest: Deriving Energy from Food
8. The Green World's Gift: Photosynthesis
UNIT 3. HOW LIFE GOES ON: GENETICS
9. Introduction to Genetics; Mitosis and Cytokinesis
10. Preparing for Sexual Reproduction: Meiosis
11. The First Geneticist: Mendel and His Discoveries
12. Chromosomes and Inheritance
13. DNA Structure and Replication
14. How Proteins Are Made: Genetic Transcription, Translation, and Regulation
15. The Future Isn't What It Used to Be: Biotechnology
UNIT 4. LIFE'S ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE: EVOLUTION AND THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE
16. An Introduction to Evolution: Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Thought, and the Evidence for Evolution
17. The Means of Evolution: Microevolution
18. The Outcomes of Evolution: Macroevolution
19. A Slow Unfolding: The History of Life on Earth
20. Viruses, Bacteria, Archaea, and Protists: The Diversity of Life 1
21. Fungi and Plants: The Diversity of Life 2
22. Animals: The Diversity of Life 3
UNIT 5. A BOUNTY THAT FEEDS US ALL: PLANTS
23. An Introduction to Flowering Plants
24. Form and Function in Flowering Plants
UNIT 6. WHAT MAKES THE ORGANISM TICK? ANIMAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
25. Introduction to Animal Anatomy and Physiology: The Integumentary, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems
26. Communication and Control: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
27. Defense: The Immune System
28. Transport, Nutrition, and Exchange: Blood, Breath, Digestion, and Elimination
29. An Amazingly Detailed Script: Animal Development
30. How the Baby Came to Be: Human Reproduction
UNIT 7. THE LIVING WORLD AS A WHOLE: ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
31. An Interactive Living World: Populations and Communities in Ecology
32. An Interactive Living World: Ecosystems and the Biosphere
33. Animal Behavior
UNIT 1. ESSENTIAL PARTS: ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND CELLS
2. The Fundamental Building Blocks: Chemistry and Life
3. Water, pH, and Biological Molecules
4. Life's Home: The Cell
5. Life's Border: The Plasma Membrane
UNIT 2. ENERGY AND ITS TRANSFORMATION
6. Life's Mainspring: An Introduction to Energy
7. Vital Harvest: Deriving Energy from Food
8. The Green World's Gift: Photosynthesis
UNIT 3. HOW LIFE GOES ON: GENETICS
9. Introduction to Genetics; Mitosis and Cytokinesis
10. Preparing for Sexual Reproduction: Meiosis
11. The First Geneticist: Mendel and His Discoveries
12. Chromosomes and Inheritance
13. DNA Structure and Replication
14. How Proteins Are Made: Genetic Transcription, Translation, and Regulation
15. The Future Isn't What It Used to Be: Biotechnology
UNIT 4. LIFE'S ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE: EVOLUTION AND THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE
16. An Introduction to Evolution: Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Thought, and the Evidence for Evolution
17. The Means of Evolution: Microevolution
18. The Outcomes of Evolution: Macroevolution
19. A Slow Unfolding: The History of Life on Earth
20. Viruses, Bacteria, Archaea, and Protists: The Diversity of Life 1
21. Fungi and Plants: The Diversity of Life 2
22. Animals: The Diversity of Life 3
UNIT 5. A BOUNTY THAT FEEDS US ALL: PLANTS
23. An Introduction to Flowering Plants
24. Form and Function in Flowering Plants
UNIT 6. WHAT MAKES THE ORGANISM TICK? ANIMAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
25. Introduction to Animal Anatomy and Physiology: The Integumentary, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems
26. Communication and Control: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
27. Defense: The Immune System
28. Transport, Nutrition, and Exchange: Blood, Breath, Digestion, and Elimination
29. An Amazingly Detailed Script: Animal Development
30. How the Baby Came to Be: Human Reproduction
UNIT 7. THE LIVING WORLD AS A WHOLE: ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
31. An Interactive Living World: Populations and Communities in Ecology
32. An Interactive Living World: Ecosystems and the Biosphere
33. Animal Behavior